"One Word" is the first single from Kelly Osbourne's second album Sleeping in the Nothing. Unlike the pop/punk sound Kelly sported in the past, "One Word" was a synth-pop song that showed Kelly embracing dance music. The single sounded very reminiscent of the 1980s Visage song "Fade to Grey", which caused some controversy over copyright issues, which was finally settled out of court when Osbourne's writing team agreed to give Visage a share of the royalties.
Curiously, Italian pop singer Tiziano Ferro, who in recent years has been accused of plagiarising an R. Kelly song for one of his tracks, during summer 2006 released as a single a song called "Stop! Dimentica", a song which sounds similar to the Visage track. It also has some lyrical resemblances with Osbourne's One Word, since both songs talk about "one word", about "breaking the silence", "lies that told great stories" and others.
The song received a positive reaction from music fans and even some of Osbourne's harshest critics, like myself. And while the single wasn't a hit on the US Hot 100, it was extremely successful in the US dance charts and was consistently played at nightclubs across the nation thanks in part to a remix by acclaimed DJ Chris Cox. In the UK the original track reached #9.
international chart peaks :
World Dance/Trance Top 30 Singles # 1
Billboard US Hot Dance Airplay # 1
UK singles chart # 9
Spanish singles chart # 9
Portugese singles chart # 12
Canadian singles chart # 17
Irish singles chart # 19
Swedish singles chart # 48
Dutch singles chart # 83
Chris Cox Extended Video mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isaTPUGG6kM
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